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You sucker-punch an African-American. Brag about it on social media. Then get arrested for assault. Because you’re that stupid. Hunting suspected Nazis (or witches or whatever), the activity itself, will make you so.
UPDATE: This is R.C. Maxwell, who is involved with the American Voice PAC.
UPDATE: Pepper Balls also couldn’t help outing himself on social and news media, causing his own arrest.
This keeps coming up.
Despite (or maybe because of) those things, lefties still claim to feel threatened by the Right and wring their hands over the possibility of right-wing violence.
Relax, lefties! You’re the violent ones. Breitbart has a roundup for you.
It’s worth reading in full. The short version is: Most – not all, but most – of the serious political violence in America, like assassinations and explosions, comes from the Left. Enjoy!
By the way: I haven’t seen a Steve Scalise update since June 22, when he was transferred out of Intensive Care. Hopefully, “no news is good news”.
UPDATE: Julian Assange’s Twitter stream around June 30 is full of examples of lefties making death threats on him or explaining why he should be ‘droned’. (Plus examples where CNN approved of violence against journalists.)
Per The Hill this morning, he has been upgraded from Serious to Fair condition.
I didn’t see this coming: Bono gives Scalise a shout-out. Meaning something positive.
“You’ve been through some troubling days here with the shooting in Alexandria,” Bono says on-stage in the video. “We are so grateful that Congressman Scalise and his comrades made it through. So grateful. We hold them up, as love holds us all up.”
…U2 performed Tuesday night in Hyattsville, Maryland, at FedExField, home of the Washington Redskins. FedExField is located about 19 miles northeast of Alexandria.
But they’re still stuck on a motive for the shooting. ABC’s article is totally silent on it. The Hill’s article touches on it in a way that disguises the truth:
The FBI said Wednesday that the shooter, who died shortly after sustaining injuries in a confrontation with police, worked alone and that the incident had “no nexus to terrorism.”
The agency also confirmed Hodgkinson had a paper list containing six lawmakers’ names, although they said they would not classify it as a “hit list.”
So, the FBI is politically correct? Yikes! Reminder:
From the comments: James reminds us that Bono has kinda-sorta been getting sensible for awhile. Nice to see!
The unimportant Stephen Colbert makes a fact-free slam about President Trump fellating Vladimir Putin. Nothing worth mentioning, there.
He imagines that he’s being relevant or edgy or manly. Still nothing worth mentioning.
People ask what would happen if any comedian made such a slam on President Obama (who, in a most embarrassing moment in 2012, promised the Russians to be nicer than he was letting on with American voters). Example #1,234,511,998 to point out the Left’s double standards. True, but still not much to mention.
Then #FireColbert becomes a thing as people start noticing that Colbert’s slur was essentially, um, homophobic.
Taking double standards to a new low, left-wing celebrities defend Colbert’s slur. (Among them, the execrable George Takei.)
Predictably, Colbert claims the devil made him do it (Trump).
What happens next?
The Democrats seem to have realized that the violence they have been inciting may not be to their political advantage. Obama told Democrat supporters he disapproved of the violence displayed by leftist street thugs at a Donald Trump rally in California. He didn’t say this to the actual thugs, nor did he say this to the activist groups that promote the violence. He said it to be a group of Democrat millionaire lawyers at a private fundraiser.
“We saw in San Jose these protesters starting to pelt stuff and Trump supporters,” Mr. Obama said at a fundraiser near Biscayne Bay, Florida. “That’s not what our democracy is about. That’s not what you do. There’s no room for violence. There’s no place for shouting. There’s no room for a politics that fails to at least listen to the other side — even if you vehemently disagree.”
He also attacked Republican for “feeding resentments.” You see, the “resentments” of middle class working people are not legitimate. Only the resentments of BlackLivesMatter, La Raza, the Gay Left and other Democrat constituencies matter.
Previously, Obama said, “Rich people are all for nonviolence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.”
If President Obama listened to a certain someone who spoke to Jay Leno about changing Washington nigh on five years ago, he might spend more time talking to them than blaming some in the conservative media.
As readers who remember my blog postings will surely recall, in March 2009, that certain someone said:
And one of the things that I’m trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame. And I think Geithner is doing an outstanding job. I think that we have a big mess on our hands. It’s not going to be solved immediately, but it is going to get solved. And the key thing is for everybody just to stay focused on doing the job instead of trying to figure out who you can pass blame on to.
But, early this morning, Yahoo! was leading with an article reporting:
President Barack Obama is blaming his rocky relationship with Republicans in Congress on Rush Limbaugh, and the constant stream of bad press he receives from Fox News.
In the New Yorker follow-up interview to the magazine’s in-depth portrait of the President, Obama is described as being “particularly touchy” when discussing the notion that his inability to compromise with Republicans prevents him from passing more legislation.
Interesting that the folks at Yahoo! Celebrity headline this as Obama calling out Rush Limbaugh et al., as if he is being bold and daring and standing up to bullies. No, the problem isn’t bullies on the right, but inaction from the White House. When was the last time Mr. Obama invited any Republican leaders for a round of golf or to to a “beer summit” at the White House?
But what they really should be asking is why Mr. Obama doesn’t do as other presidents have done and invite his partisan adversaries to the White House or otherwise attempt to hash out their differences.
Funny that our legacy media aren’t asking why Obama is always looking for someone else to blame.
More to mock the Democrat than to praise him, my nephew shared this image team Obama is offering of Facebook:
And just what solutions to the impasse have you offered, Mr. President?
Remember what a certain politician said back in March 2009 about ending the pattern of looking for someone else to blame?
And one of the things that I’m trying to break is a pattern in Washington where everybody is always looking for somebody else to blame. And I think Geithner is doing an outstanding job. I think that we have a big mess on our hands. It’s not going to be solved immediately, but it is going to get solved. And the key thing is for everybody just to stay focused on doing the job instead of trying to figure out who you can pass blame on to.
Barack Obama, October 2013:
SOMEWHAT RELATED: Michael Barone is also pointing the finger: Blame James Madison for the government shutdown. Well, I guess that gets Obama off the hook.
Methinks he may want a shutdown so he can have another excuse to attack Republicans.
This headline helps strengthen that suspicion: HALPERIN: OBAMA OKAY WITH SHUTDOWN BECAUSE MEDIA HAS HIS BACK:
Intentionally or not, Monday on Morning Joe, Time’s Mark Halperin revealed to the world how the American media’s pro-Obama bias will in part be to blame for any coming government shutdown. When asked if President Obama had an incentive to negotiate with the GOP, Halperin explained that, “The White House does not have much incentive. They think the trends are going to go in their direction at the end of the week, or early next week at the latest; because again, the press is largely sympathetic to their arguments on this.”
No wonder he hasn’t met with House Republicans to try to work out their differences.
Am I right to speculate that Obama might want to see the government shutdown? Or he sincere in his commitment to keep it open? (If he is, please detail what he has done to prevent the shutdown.)
So, readers, use the comments section below to let us know what you think . . .
UPDATE: Contending that “Obama Wants a Shutdown, So He’ll Get a Shutdown,” Bryan Preston observes:
Republicans never threatened a shutdown during this entire debate. They made a point to fund the rest of the government while defunding or now delaying Obamacare. It has been Obama and the Democrats who have threatened a shutdown. The media, like Obama, will not only depend on the ignorance of the average American, they will actively foster that ignorance with deception and misdirection. That’s their schtick.
He also reminds us:
Other congresses have also fought over spending and attached conditions to debt ceiling hikes, going all the way back to the time of Eisenhower. Democrat congresses shut the government down under Reagan, about a dozen times. You’re not supposed to know any of that, though.
At times, certain spokespeople for leftism will assert notions which are so unreal that I must stop to ponder: Are they cynical, that is, people who knowingly spread lies in a quest to gain power through manipulation of the unwary?
Or are they self-deluded and mentally ‘flexible’, Orwell-style, such that they do believe what they are saying – at least in the moment of saying it?
The latest example is Detroit. Its decades of decline are, of course, due in large measure to its decades of uninterrupted rule by left-liberals, as mentioned here.
In reaction, a wave of left-liberals on TV have claimed that Detroit failed because of…(wait for it)…conservatives, Republicans, and small-government policies. For examples, see here (Sally Kohn), here (Ed Schultz) and here (Melissa Harris-Perry with Howard Dean).
So, which is it? Do they lie knowingly? Or are they “that” deluded?
Sally Kohn’s example is instructive for other reasons. She worries that conservatives will “try to use Detroit falsely as an example to push more austerity.”
Think about what she’s saying. She obviously wants the opposite of “austerity”, which word she means as a pejorative for tight government spending and balanced budgets. It follows that she prefers loose government spending and unbalanced budgets, the very factors that have mathematically bankrupted Detroit.
In other words, her solution to Detroit’s decline and bankruptcy is, moar profligacy. Thus proving that, for left-liberals, it is never never ever a good time to reduce government spending.
UPDATE: Commentor BL mentions the possibility that people could be deluded from mis-education. I can accept that answer for younger leftists. It’s problematic for the older ones, because for older people, mis-education is a choice.